A British judge was due to lift a court order and allow the cancer-stricken five-year-old to fly to the Czech Republic for £150,000 specialist treatment.

But the High Court decision was delayed, much to the frustration of little Ashya’s parents.

Mum Naghmeh, 45, spent the night sleeping in an armchair beside her sick son after their emotional reunion on Wednesday.

“Two officers were watching him watching him around the clock”

She and Ashya’s dad Brett, 51, were together for the first time since were arrested on Saturday for taking Ashya from Southampton Hospital.

The couple were jailed for child neglect in Malaga, Spain, after fleeing Britain to get private care for their sick son, who has a brain tumour.

The family have now accepted an offer from charity Kids ’n’ Cancer UK to pay for the £150,000 proton beam treatment in Prague.

But they risk going back to jail if they take Ashya away without authorisation from a British judge. Yesterday the police guard watching Ashya at the hospital was removed. A source at the Materno-Infantil hospital in Malaga, said: “Two officers were watching him watching him around the clock.